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Iran and US deny kidnap of 7 American soldiers
2010-09-20
[Al Arabiya] Iran's Revolutionary Guards and the Pentagon denied on Sunday that Seven US troops were kidnapped by Iranian border guards, calling the report "unfounded", the state-run English language Press TV said.

The semi-official Fars news agency reported earlier in the day that border guards had detained seven U.S. troops as they tried to illegally enter the Islamic state. The agency later withdrew the story, which had given no source.

Iran's Arabic-language television al-Alam quoted Iran's Revolutionary Guards, in charge of Iran's border security, as denying that any such incident had happened in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan.

In Washington, a U.S. Defense Department front man said: "Reports by state-run Iranian media that seven U.S. soldiers were detained after crossing into Iran are false."

A front man for NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, U.S. Captain Ryan Donald, said no U.S. soldiers were missing.
Posted by:Fred

#3   with this made up concoction.

I have started to wonder whether the origninal Fars report was a premature release based on an attempted execution, newc, foiled by the potential victims.
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-09-20 13:17  

#2  Source for original ayy pee story should be ignored. Has been very wrong in the past and certainly wasted lots of our time with this made up concoction.
Posted by: newc   2010-09-20 07:26  

#1  Versus

TOPIX > AHMADINEJAD ASKS US TO RELEASE EIGHT IRANIANS.

The proverbial Plot weirdly, mysteriously, but of course only Coincidentally = PDeniably, THICKENS???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-09-20 01:22  

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